Saudi crown prince pays visit to Türkiye

Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler will on June 22 take another step towards breaking his international isolation by paying his first visit to Türkiye since the murder in 2018 of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the kingdom's Istanbul consulate.

The talks in Ankara between Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan come one month before a visit to Riyadh by US president Joe Biden, for a regional summit focused on the energy crunch caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The incident deeply soured ties between Saudi Arabia and Türkiye as well as other Western countries.
Saudi agents killed and dismembered Khashoggi, an insider turned critic, in the kingdom's Istanbul consulate in October 2018. His remains have never been found.

However, Turkey and Saudi Arabia left the killing of the journalist behind after a Turkish court decided to transfer the case against the perpetrators to the Saudi judicial system. Erdoğan paid a visit to Saudi Arabia in May.

 

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